Bitcoin Lightning Network Mainnet Passes 500 Nodes
The Lightning Network mainnet has expanded beyond 500 nodes while its testnet implementation now hosts more nodes than Bitcoin Cash. ...
Tag: Bitcoin Scaling
Lightning Network Crosses 100 Nodes, SegWit Nears 20% Dominance
The Lightning Network (LN) mainnet has almost doubled its node count and capacity in days as Bitcoin users rapidly switch ...
Schnorr Signatures Might Be Bitcoin’s Next Step Forward
The Schnorr signatures algorithm promises to help to address one of the most pressing problems affecting Bitcoin today: scalability. Additionally, ...
Segwit2x Testnet Unintentionally Forks, Prevents Blocks From Being Created
Yesterday, the testnet for the most recent Bitcoin scaling proposal, Segwit2x, experienced a fork in the chain, causing the creation ...
Luke-jr Warns: ‘One Purpose’ Of SegWit2x To ‘Stall SegWit,’ Empower Bitmain
Bitcoin Core developer Luke-jr has released a damning appraisal of SegWit2x as the scaling tool launches in beta. Luke-jr Warns ...
Growing Support for Segwit2x Amid BIP 148 UASF Concerns
The New York Agreement, also known as Segwit2x, is finally being signaled by the boasted 80+% of the hash power ...
‘Chicken Game’: Reality Comes Home To Roost For UASF Supporters
As SegWit2x gains over 80% hash rate support, a developer has pronounced the Bitcoin user-activated soft fork (UASF) “dead.” Silbert ...
UASF Continues to Gain Support as ‘Secret’ SegWit2x Roadmap Revealed
Though a Bitcoin scaling agreement was reached at the recent Consensus conference in New York, many companies are increasingly supporting a User-Activated Soft ...
